Word: porticoed
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...investment bankers are apparently indifferent to the hard things recently said of them in the West. Last week their convention was held in Washington itself, and they were addressed by President Coolidge from the south portico of the White House. The President's remarks were brief and to the point. After declaring that the investment banker performed important functions in American society by encouraging thrift and gathering funds for the commerce and industry of the country, President Coolidge went on to stress the responsibility which these tasks involved and to appeal to the Investment Bankers' Association to drive...
...make his third informal address from the south portico of the White House, this time to 500 delegates attending the 23rd annual convention of the National Association of Postmasters. To them he said: " I wonder if you had a chance to stop and think of the real importance of the service you are performing. ... Civilization, I might say, rests on it to a very large extent...
...Addressed delegates of the World's Dairy Congress from the south portico of the White House, saying: " We read that even in the days of Abraham the keeping and tending of flocks and herds was not new, but was well established. Your presence here indicates especially the importance that this industry has attained. . . ." As the President spoke Laddie Buck and Peter Pan, Presidential terriers, sent up a duet of yelps from their kennels immediately beneath the south portico. William Jackson, Negro kennel master, silenced one of them, but the other continued his serenade...
...members of the James A. Shannon Post of the Legion, and delegations from Cambridge Post No. 27, the Harvard Veterans of the Civil War, and the Charles Beck Post of the G. A. R. will assemble in front of Widener Library with the Harvard University Band playing under the portico...
...main Institute buildings are arranged in a great quadrangle, open toward the river, the portico of the Library, surmounted by the dome, occupying the central position. They are made of reinforced concrete, and are absolutely fireproof, the floors being stone, and the stairs iron. The total cost of their construction has been estimated at $10,000,000, and the lot on which they are built contains fifty acres. This includes the new athletic fields, which are already in use, and boast one of the best tracks in the country...